Favoriting The Funhouse with Harry Parmenter: Playlist from March 23, 2025 Favoriting

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A weekly hour of unpredictable rockin' fun featuring unheard music with occasional history, commentary and anecdotes from host Harry Parmenter. THE FUNHOUSE offers the listener a brief respite from the onslaught of daily existence.

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Approx. start time
The Stranglers  The Waltzinblack (Intro)   Favoriting The Gospel According To The Meninblack  EMI  1981  LP  0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bob Dylan  Beyond Here Lies Nothin'   Favoriting Together Through Life  Columbia  2009  CD  0:01:04 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Tom Waits  Clap Hands   Favoriting Rain Dogs  Island  1980  LP  0:04:43 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Hives  A Stroll Through Hives Manor Corridors   Favoriting The Black and White Album  No Fun  2007  CD  0:09:26 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Liminanas & Laurent Garnier  Promenade Oblique   Favoriting De Pelicula  Berret  2021  CD  0:11:19 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Fontaines D.C.  Starburster   Favoriting Romance  XL Recordings  2024  CD  0:18:23 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Jonathan Winters  100 Year Old Man   Favoriting Final Approach  Uproar Entertainment  2011  CD  0:20:18 (MP3 | Pop-up)
ZZ Top  Fuzzbox Voodoo   Favoriting Antenna  RCA  1994  CD  0:23:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Booker T & The M.G.'s  Lawn Party   Favoriting Stax Instrumentals  Stax  2003  CD  0:28:20 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Joe Grushecky  That is All I Want From You   Favoriting Fingerprints  Schoolhouse Records  2002  CD  0:31:48 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Chrissie Hynde  Down the Wrong Way   Favoriting Stockholm  Caroline International  2014  CD  0:35:43 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Leo Kottke  Why Can't You Fix My Car   Favoriting My Father's Place  Private Music  1989  CD  0:39:17 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Urban Voodoo Machine  When We Were All Asleep   Favoriting Urban Voodoo Machine  Gypsy Hotel  2018    0:41:48 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Big Mama Thornton  Watermelon Man   Favoriting SassyMama: Live at the Rising Sun Celebrity Jazz Club  Justin Time/Nettwerk  2022  CD  0:43:50 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Dr. Feelgood  Mad Man Blues   Favoriting Mad Man Blues  Grand - 2  1999  CD  0:48:03 (MP3 | Pop-up)
John Lee Hooker  Drug Store Woman   Favoriting Burnin'    1962  LP  0:50:24 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Elvis Presley  She's Not You   Favoriting "Pot Luck With Elvis" Lp  RCA/BMG International  1962  LP  0:56:22 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:00pm
Fatherflot:

Hey Harry.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:00
Hey F/J. How are ya.
Avatar ♥ 9:02pm
Harry Parmenter:

long drive friday and weekend back missed the big block friday night. will catch archive during week.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:02pm
Fatherflot:

If anyone is interested in reading the Edgar Allen Poe story "A Descent Into the Maelstrom" -- it's here: poestories.com...
Avatar ♥ 9:03pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:02
Excellent link! Need to reread myself since I quote that phrase--possibly my favorite in the English language--weekly.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:02
fascinates me the work EAP did during that short, short lifetime. what a giant of imagination.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:03pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:02
Cool. Hope you like that show. I just finished next Friday's. We had this past week off, so tomorrow it's back to work. . .πŸ˜’
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:03pm
SF Sorrow:

Hello Harry!
Hello F2!
Nice Dylan start up tune
Avatar ♥ 9:04pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:03
what's your day at school llike, 7-4?
Avatar ♥ 9:04pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ SF Sorrow @9:03
SF Sorrow Welcome! yeah dig this un
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:05pm
Fatherflot:

Let's clap hands for these selections.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:05pm
Fatherflot:

↳ SF Sorrow @9:03
Hey SF
Avatar ♥ 9:05pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:05
i just LOVE this percussion sound. absolutely so wharf singapore vibe
Avatar 🥃 ♥ 9:06pm
SF Sorrow:

↳ Fatherflot @9:05
Hands are a Clapp 'in!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:06pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:04
Officially 7:45 - 3:30, but I'm almost always there past 5, sometimes much later. But I'll have to leave by 5 tomorrow to pick up junion from track practice at a different school.
Avatar ♥ 9:06pm
Harry Parmenter:

finally a nerve wracker in maryland game
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:06pm
JReganK:

Hey, Harry!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:06pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:05
This my favorite Waits album, at least from the Island era.
Avatar ♥ 9:07pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:06
mileage! passed a school today immediately bordering a cemetery. a first in my book.
  9:07pm
rychurd:

hay Harry n funhausers!
Avatar ♥ 9:07pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:06
agree. he kinda lost me at Harry's Wild Years; that just didn't work on vinyl/record
Avatar ♥ 9:07pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ rychurd @9:07
rychard!!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:08pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

Hi Harry and all!!!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ JReganK @9:06
JRegan K! Welcome in!
Avatar ♥ 9:09pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Will thee SG OCNY @9:08
Will! Evening! And thanks again to all for their FH/FMU donations. A Great Feeling for everyone at the station with the warm response this year spanning the globe.
Avatar ♥ 9:10pm
Harry Parmenter:

I can just see Lurch practicing the organ at this tune
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:12pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:07
I like some songs on "Frank's Wild Years" - but I agree he started to lose the script somewhat as he went for a more Avant Garde theater thing. Did you ever see Fred Armisen's parody of "Big Time" on Documentary Now?
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:13pm
Fatherflot:

Useful shot there for Colorado State Rams
Avatar ♥ 9:14pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:12
NO! Oh my god that must be great. I saw the Big Time tour and have great story think I've mentioned before forever ago. Gotta find that doc. Ripe territory for satire.
Avatar ♥ 9:14pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:13
quite
Avatar ♥ 9:15pm
Harry Parmenter:

and even more useful
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Harry Parmenter:

weak D
Avatar ♥ 9:16pm
Harry Parmenter:

actually justa great shot i take it back
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:17pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:14
It was actually snuck into their parody of "Stop making Sense" where they have the David Byrne character go solo and artsy: youtu.be...
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:17pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:16
Yeah they guy on him had a hand in the way the entire sequence
Avatar ♥ 9:18pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:17
ah haven't seen that either! thx
Avatar ♥ 9:19pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:17
and grey gardens parody as well! jackpot! can't wait
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:21pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:18
The whole thing is great, as is most of their stuff. The parody of Spaulding Grey's "Swimming to Cambodia" is insanely hilarious : youtu.be...

The parody of Sondheim's "Company" was pure genius: youtu.be...
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:21pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:19
Yup
Avatar ♥ 9:22pm
Harry Parmenter:

wow now THAT sounds like entertainment.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:22pm
Fatherflot:

Some of those are easily among the best mockumentaries every made. They've certainly mastered the art of the "mini-mockumentary"
Avatar ♥ 9:23pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:02
i don't think i knew till now there's an umlaut in "maestrom"
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:23pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "100 Year Old Man" by "Jonathan Winters"
What a nut!
Avatar ♥ 9:23pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:22
a mighty fine addition to the genre genre
  9:23pm
Lindy McDaniel:

Hey Harry. Fun hearing Jonathan Winters talking about someone taking a dump
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:24pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Lindy McDaniel @9:23
drop a log" 🀣
Avatar ♥ 9:24pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Lindy McDaniel @9:23
yes something you would d-, er, say
Avatar ♥ 9:25pm
Harry Parmenter:

Lindy didn't just die I hope? long time ago as i recall.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:25pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:25
2020
  9:26pm
Lindy McDaniel:

Just made a donation Harry. I paid in 1968 dollars!
Avatar ♥ 9:26pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:25
right, while back. man there was one year he was practically unhittable.
Avatar ♥ 9:27pm
Harry Parmenter:

the john lee hooker of aging right handed junk throwing relievers in pinstripes
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:27pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

This is pretty rockin
Avatar ♥ 9:28pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Will thee SG OCNY @9:27
fuzzbox yeah. and hard to go wrong with booker t
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:28pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Lindy McDaniel @9:26
pre or post Tet?
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:30pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:28
Always in good taste. I found that as I DJ, always have their Greatest Hits handy in case something goes wrong. It always fits and everyone will love it.
Avatar ♥ 9:30pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:30
i got this stax combo instrumental record with The Bar Kays. same thing.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:32pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:30
Me too. Even one-offs like "Restless" by "The Cobras" are all time classix
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:34pm
Fatherflot:

Pretty much anything The Colonel had a hand it is gonna be aces.
Avatar ♥ 9:34pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:32
yeah. btw was just looking for and can't find short B Stoker story about guy, castle and that ancient torture device that closed in on the victim--maelstrom reminded me. you know the one i mean? shoot can't recall title. black cat on the loose in a museum with visitors.
Avatar ♥ 9:34pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:34
TP?
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:36pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:34
Steve Cropper
Avatar ♥ 9:36pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:34
THE SQUAW! That's the one.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:36pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:36
don't know that one
Avatar ♥ 9:38pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:36
memorable. brief. 18 minute read maybe. and you'll never forget it.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:38pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:38
πŸ‘
  9:40pm
Lindy McDaniel:

Never heard of joe Grushecky but liked the song
Avatar ♥ 9:41pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Lindy McDaniel @9:40
The Boss tried to break him but couldn't quite. Pittsburgh. Iron City Houserockers original outfit made one great album and blew the doors off live.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:45pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "Watermelon Man" by "Big Mama Thornton"
Nice
Avatar ♥ 9:46pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:45
feels like about 17 people in the joint on this particular night
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:48pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:46
tres intime
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:50pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "Drug Store Woman" by "John Lee Hooker"
cool as hell
  9:50pm
Chuck:

Hey Harry & Co...The Power of Words!!!...we beez jammin' tonight!!!...:)
Avatar ♥ 9:51pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Chuck @9:50
alright Chuck how you doing welcome
  9:52pm
Chuck:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:51
Just thinking about how we would all be lost without words...:)
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Chuck @9:52
you are right. we'd have to communicate like animals 24/7/!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:54pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Chuck @9:52
Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
  9:55pm
Chuck:

↳ Fatherflot @9:54
Oh well it's a lot more interesting than grunting at each other...:)
Avatar ♥ 9:56pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:54
eloquence squared, Sir.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:56pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

Thank you Harry!!!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:56pm
Fatherflot:

Flaubert

Better translation:

β€œThe human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for a dancing bear, when we hoped, in our hearts, to move the stars to tears.”
  9:56pm
Chuck:

Luv the music...:)
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:57pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:56
I should have put the quotation marks in --- old Gus Flaubert
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:56
wow, sumthin. haven't read a word of his output. essentials?
Avatar ♥ 9:58pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Chuck @9:56
thx Chuck. bit of a hodgepodge here as usual just tryin to hit the target. appreciate you and everyone joining. good week to all.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:58pm
JReganK:

Thanks, Harry. Great show tonight!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ JReganK @9:58
Thanks, JRK! Great to have you here and digging it
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:59pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:57
God yes. One of the inner circle greats Wish I could read him in French. Madame Bovary, Sentimental Education. The long short story "A Simple Heart" is one of the most unforgettable pieces of fiction ever.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:01pm
Fatherflot:

Bouvard and Pecuchet too
Avatar ♥ 10:01pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:59
got it. high praise. will delve. thx as always, man.
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